Bonjour Chicago! As part of the 20-year friendship between “sister cities” Paris and Chicago, the 5th Champs-Elysées Film Festival focused its urban spotlight on the “Windy City.” As part of the Chicago celebrations, the Paris-based festival of American cinema invited the Chicago International Film Festival to be part of the event. I was there, representing the Festival, along with a host of films and filmmakers that represented the cinematic “soul” of the city.
From classic films such as Andrew Davis’ “The Fugitive” and Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” to recent Chicago International Film Festival favorites from young Chicago filmmakers Patrick Underwood (“The Middle Distance”), Malik Bader (“Cash Only”) and Erik Shirai (“The Birth of Sake”), Chicago’s movies were all over the French festival.
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